Word: tough
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Banda has even succeeded in pushing through his wrangling Parliament a tough public security bill giving the government emergency powers against local disturbances and against strikes that it considers "politically motivated." The debate on the bill got so heated that police had to storm Parliament and carry out opposition leaders, including Dr. Perera, who kept right on orating as he was being borne horizontally from the hall...
...this was hardly the sort of thing to endear the get-tough policies of Malvern's successor, federal Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky, to his London critics. No African, said the Earl of Lucan, could now "have any doubt as to the kind of attitude of certain of the Europeans." But last week, in the Rhodesias themselves, just when matters seemed to be getting out of hand, calmer views began to prevail. Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Sir Edgar Whitehead, faced with strong criticism by clergymen and lawyers, withdrew his police-state Preventive Detention Act and set free...
...last time Henrique Baptista Duffles Teixeira Lott, 64, saw the U.S., he was an obscure brigadier general, attached to the Brazilian embassy in Washington. This week, ten years later, he returns as the tough, seasoned boss of the Brazilian armed forces, and democracy's strong right arm in Brazil. As he goes off for three weeks of sightseeing, mostly military, from Cape Canaveral to West Point to Fort Ord in California, the U.S. will get acquainted with the man who will play a key role-either as candidate or moderator-in Brazil's presidential election next year...
...been four "long and tough" years, Grivas told a TIME correspondent last week. "I am very tired." But he stood erect as he talked in his second-floor apartment at the foot of the Acropolis...
...trail boss of Wagon Train, one of the biggest (60 min.) and costliest ($90,000-$120,000) of TV's saddle-soap operas. Bond shares the billing with a new guest star every week, and with a capable young actor named Robert Horton, who plays a tough scout. On the show, Actor Bond is fatherly one minute, the next he is roaring like a mule with the colic. An extravert's extravert, he has a grin like a Texas river, a mile wide and an inch deep, and a laugh that can shatter a klieg light. He also...